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Welty Garden to Mark Decade of Operation
Join the Eudora Welty House and Garden on Saturday, March 29, for a celebration of the tenth anniversary of the opening of the garden. From 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. visitors may tour the grounds, which will feature new and updated interpretive signs. A plant sale featuring camellias and other heirloom plant varieties grown in the Welty Garden will begin at 10 a.m. and last until the plants are sold out.
“We are excited about the new signage being developed for the grounds,” said Bridget Edwards, director, Eudora Welty House and Garden. “This will be an important addition that will strengthen a visitor’s understanding of how the garden helped shape and inspire Eudora Welty’s life and work.”
On Thursday, March 27, at 11 a.m. at the Mississippi Museum of Art the Eudora Welty Foundation will sponsor a luncheon
to celebrate the anniversary. Mississippi- Haltom used extensive documentation
born writer and humorist Julia Reed will be the guest speaker. For tickets and more details, call 601-353-7762.
Opened in April 2004, the restored garden reflects the forty years of collaboration between Eudora Welty and her mother, Chestina, who designed the garden in 1925. Welty helped her mother lay out and plant the garden before leaving that same year for college.
She returned home in 1931 following her father’s death and worked side by side with her mother in the garden until her mother’s death in 1966.
Garden restoration consultant Susan
Author Julia Reed will speak at a celebration of the tenth anniversary of the Welty garden.
8 a.m. to 5 p
by Welty and her mother to return the garden to its original state. Chestina Welty kept garden diaries noting the layout of beds and bloom schedules, while Eudora took photographs of the garden from the roof of the family’s house.
Tours of the Eudora Welty House are by reservation at 9 and 11 a.m. and 1 and 3 p.m. Tuesday through Friday, and begin at the Education and Visitors Center next door to the museum. The center features permanent as well as special exhibits about Welty and is open free of charge from .m. Monday through Friday.
MDAH Evers Exhibit Closes, to Travel State
Thousands of people from as far away as Australia, Japan, and Scotland viewed the exhibit "This Is Home": Medgar Evers, Mississippi, and the Movement during its six-month run at the William F. Winter Archives and History Building in Jackson this year.
“This Is Home" examined the life and death of civil rights leader Medgar Evers, who served as Mississippi field secretary for the NAACP from 1954 until his assassination in the driveway of his home on June
11,	1963. The original exhibit created by MDAH staff is available at no cost to educational and cultural institutions across the state through the department’s Traveling Exhibits program.
The Evers exhibit will be displayed in February at the African American Military History Museum in Hattiesburg, where it will be part of the museum’s grand reopening celebration. Following its run in Hatties-
burg, the exhibit will travel to the J.D. Boyd Library at Alcorn State University and the Medgar Evers Library in Jackson.
MDAH offers seven additional traveling exhibits focusing on topics as varied as Hernando de Soto’s sixteenth century exploration of Mississippi, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Eudora Welty’s writings and photographs, and truck farming in Copiah County. For more information or to book an exhibit call 601-576-6997.
For the last three summers MDAH has mounted original exhibits commemorating significant anniversaries of events from the Civil War and civil rights movement. On June
1,	2014, the department will debut “Stand Up!”: Mississippi Freedom Summer of1964, which will examine the courage, violence, and promise of the “long, hot summer.” It will run through October and then travel the state.
Statehood Daij
December 10, noon Old Capitol Museum
Mississippi statehood bicentennial celebration
Lt. Gov. Tate Reeves Speaker Philip Gunn
Reception to follow. State Street at Capitol • 601-576-6920